5.1

The students of 5.1 are very proud because today they made a difference to some one else: Our class donated $300 to ACRES, an organization that rescues wild animals in Singapore. The $300 are from the $600 they raised at the Market Day in their inquiry into How We Organize Ourselves.The students selected the organization and a young man from ACRES visited our class today to tell us about their work.

And... ACTION !!! Our classroom is buzzing with creative work as students have started working on their Action for their inquiry. Some are collecting used plastic bottles from around the school, some are making presentations to various classes, a few are busy drawing and then re-drawing designs for inventions that can save the world, brain storming ideas, agreeing and then disagreeing... another group has created cars and tools using simple machines. Wonder what tomorrow will bring......

Several groups are in the process of developing ideas for their action or actually taking action on their areas of inquiry. Koji and Keagan have been testing their cars; Toma and Raphael spent considerable time today drawing sketches for a tool/invention.

Meanwhile, Mirai, Ikram and Steven visited various classrooms to inform students about their E Waste collection project.

MIRAI'S BLOGPOST: On this week Thursday, my group met one of our primary sources: Xiang Hang’s grandparents and Steven’s mother. My group is inquiring into climate change, air pollution, and haze. Both these people live in China that has high air pollution.We asked questions about air pollution. Interview to them was really useful to our exhibition, because this can be primary source. And I think hearing from someone who has experienced air pollution is what makes our research better. I learned that Northern parts of China has really serious problem with air pollution. Also, we want to meet people who works at company that do E-waste, which is called Virogreen. Because, electronic products have things that is bad for environment.

We showed our love for reading by dressing up as our favourite characters at the ISS character dress up parade. We celebrated books from different languages _ English, Japanese, Norwegian, and from different genres.